Shoulder-pad.



No. 747,734. PATBNTED DBO. 22. 1903.

` y H. LAVINE.

sHoULDBR PAD.

APPLIOATION FILED JURE'IB, 1903.

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UNITED STATES Patented December 22, 1903.

HARRY LAVINE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SHOULDER-PA'D.

'SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 747,734, dated Decemberv22, 1903.

Application filed June 18, 1903. Serial No, 162,058. (No modeL] To a/ZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HARRY LAVINE, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan,in

the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Shoulder-Pad, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact description. Y

This invention relates to improvements in shoulder-pads for coats or like garments, an

' object being to provide a pad so constructed as. to maintain a gradually-increasing thickness from one edge to the other, thns preventing any abrupt depressions in the shoulder portion of a coat or the like in which the pad may be placed.

I will describe a shoulder-pad embodying my invention and then point out the novel features in the appended claim. i

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings,forming a part of this specificatiom in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure l is a plan view of a shoulder-pad embodying my invention, and Fig. 2 is a section on the line @c a: of Fig. l.

The shoulder-pad comprises outer layers l 2 of suitable fabric,between which is placed a wadding 3, and preferably between the outer fabric l and the wadding a stiffening material-such, for instance, as haircloth 4L- is placed; The pad -is crescent-shaped, or, in other words, has a convex edge 5 and a concave edge 6. At the'convex edge the parts are secured together by three rows of stitching 7 8 9,the said rows of stitching gradually diminishing in tension from the convex edge toward the concave edge, and between the stitching 9 and the concaveedgethe parts are secured by hastings 1U. By thus securing the parts together the pad has a graduallyincreasing thickness from its convex to its concave edge. r

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent;

A shoulder-pad having a concave edge and a convex edge, the said pad comprising outer layers of fabric, a wadding between said outer layers, a stiffening material between one of the outer layers and the wadding, a plurality of rows of stitches at the convex edge, the said rows being of gradually-diminishing tension,and hastings between said stitchings and the concave edge.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specication inthe presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HARRY LAVINE.

,Witnesses:

JNO. M. RITTER, C. R. FERGUSON. 

